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ONE HUNDRED DANTE BOOKS

A List Prepared
for

THE ITALY AMERICA SOCIETY

and
THE NATIONAL DANTE COMMITTEE

by
ERNEST H. WILKINS, Ph. D., Litt. D.

Professor of Romance Languages
in The University of Chicago

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One Hundred Dante Books

THIS list has keen prepared in the hope that it may meet the
needs of many who in this centenary year desire to read
Dante and some of the best books on Dante, and in the further
hope that it may afford guidance to librarians and owners of
private libraries who desire to round out a general collection of
Dante books.

The publication of the volume here entered in Part A greatly
simplifies the problem of the librarian and of the scholar. Hither-
to it has been necessary, if one desired to have on hand the best
texts of the several works of Dante, to acquire a dozen different
volumes.

In Part B my aim has been to list, first for the complete works
and then for each of the several works, only the one best English
translation. For the Commedia, however, I have made separate
entries for translations in prose and in verse, and have listed two
translations in verse as being of virtually equal excellence ; and
for the Vita niwva I have likewise listed two translations.

In Part C, similarly, I have sought to indicate, first for the
complete works and then for each of the several works, only the
one best set of notes. In some cases the best notes are to be found
in an edition of the original text; in other cases the best notes
are to be found in a translation. I have listed, as of virtually
equal excellence in respect to annotation, four editions of the
Commedia and two editions of the Vita nuova.

In Part D I have listed only the main reference books, and
have not treated the several series of Dante monographs nor the
several Dante periodicals. Treatment of such works is to be
found in my "An Introductory Dante Bibliography" in Modern
Philology, XVII (1920), 623-32. A few reprints of this article
have been placed at the disposal of the National j[ante^Conimjttpp

Parts E and F offer a general selective list of books on Dante,
representing many phases of his work and his influence.

I have intended to give in each case the earliest date of the
final form of the work in question. Many of the works referred
to have been reprinted without alteration, some of them several
times, since the date here given.

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ONE HUNDRED DANTE BOOKS
A. THE BEST TEXT OF THE WORKS OF DANTE

1. Le opere di Dante, ed. (for the
Societ^ Dantesca Italiana) by M.
Barbi, E. G. Parodi, F. Pellegrini,
E. Pistelli, P. Rajna, E. Rostagno
and G. Vandelli, with an index by
M. Casella, Florence, Bemporad,
1921.

B. THE BEST ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF
THE WORKS OF DANTE

I. THE COMPLETE WORKS :

2-7. The Temple classics Dante, London,
Dent.

Six volumes in the Temple classics
series. Each volume contains a prose
translation and notes. The volumes here
numbered 2, 3, 4, and 7 contain also the
Italian text. The several volumes are:

2. The Inferno, tr. by J. A. Carlyle, ed.
by H. Oelsner, 1900.

3. The Purgatorio, tr. by T. Okey, ed.
by Oelsner, 1901.

4. The Paradiso, tr. by P. H. Wicksteed,
ed. by Wicksteed and Oelsner, 1899.

5. The Convivio, tr. and ed. by Wick-
steed, 1903.

6. A translation of the Latin works, tr.
and ed. by A. G. Ferrers Howell and
Wicksteed, 1904.

The translation and editing of the De
vulgar* eloquentia are by Ferrers Howell;
the rest of the work is by Wickst (•«•<!.

7. The Vita nuova and Can:<>ni<re, tr.
and ed. by Okey and Wicksteed,
1906.

The translation of the oanzorri is by
\\ irksteed; the rest of the translation is l,y
Okey.

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II. COMMEDIA :

In prose :

8. C. E. Norton, The Divine comedy,
rev. ed., Boston, Houghton Mifflin,
3 vols., 1902 ; one vol., 1921.

In verse :

9. H. Johnson, The Divine comedy,
New Haven, Yale University Press,
1915.

10. H. W. Longfellow, The Divine com-
edy, 3 vols., Boston, Houghton
Mifflin, 1886.

in. CONVIVIO:

11. W. W. Jackson, Dante's Convwio,
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1909.

IV-VI. DE MONARCHIA, DE VULGARI ELOQUENTIA, AND ECLOGAE :

6.
VII. EPISTOLAE:

12. P. Toynbee, The letters of Dante,
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1920.

VIII. QUAESTIO DE AQUA ET TERRA :

13. C. L. Shadwell, Dante, Quaestw de
aqua et terra, Oxford, Clarendon
Press, 1909.

IX. RIME:

7.

X. VITA NUOVA:

14. C. E. Norton, The New life, rev. ed.,
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1892.

15. D. G. Rossetti, The New life, in his
The early Italian poets, ed. by E. G.
Gardner, London, Dent, 1904.

In the Temple classics series, but not in-
cluded in the Temple classics Dante. The
same material appears in Rossetti 's Poems
and translations, ed. by Gardner, London,
Dent [n. d.], a vqlume in Everyman's
library.

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C. THE BEST ANNOTATED EDITIONS OR TRANSLA-
TIONS OF THE WORKS OF DANTE

I. THE COMPLETE WORKS :

2-7.

II. COMMEDIA:

16. Ed. by T. Casini, 5th ed., Florence, Sansoni, 1903.

17. Ed. by (1. II. Grandgent, Boston, Heath, [1911].

18. Ed. by G. A. Scartazzini and G. Vandelli, 7th ed.,
Milan, Hoepli, 1914.

19. Ed. by F. Torraca, 3d ed., Rome, Albrighi Segati,
1915.

m. cONvnno:
5.

IV-V. DE MONARCHIA AND DE VULGARI ELOQUENTIA :
6.

VI. ECLOGAE:

20. Ed. by G. Albini, Florence, Sansoni, 1903.

VII. EPISTOLAE:
12.

VIII. QUAESTIO DE AQUA ET TERRA :

21. Ed. by V. Biagi in his La Quaestio de aqua et
terra di Dante: biobibliografia, dissertazione cri-
tica sitlT (lutenticitd, testo c commento, lessi-grafia,
facsimile, Modena, Vincenzi, 1907.

IX. RIME:

7.

X. VITA NUOVA:

22. Ed. by F. Flamini, in Le opere minori di Dante
Alighicri, Leghorn, Giusti, Vol. I, 1910.

23. Ed. by G. Mclodia, Milan, Vallardi, 1905.

D. WORKS OF REFERENCE ON DANTE

1 < "MI'i: STUDY OP THE LIFE AND WORKS OF DAN II

24. N. ZiiHHiivlli. Dante, Milan, Vallardi, flOOO].

A volume in the co-operative history called Storia
letteraria d' Italia scritta da una sooietd di profcssori.

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II. ENCYCLOPEDIAS:

25. G. A. Scartazzini, Enciclopedia dantesca, 3 vols.,
Milan, Hoepli, 1896-1905.

26. P. Toynbee, A concise dictionary of proper names
and notable matters in the works of Dante, Oxford,
Clarendon Press, 1914.

A revised and condensed edition of Toynbee 's A dic-
tionary of proper names and notable inatters in the works
of Dante, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1898.

III. CONCORDANCES:

27. E. A. Fay, Concordance of the Divina commedia,
Boston, Little Brown, 1888.

28. E. K. Rand and E. H. Wilkins, Dantis Alaghern
operum latinorum concordantiae, Oxford, Claren-
don Press, 1912.

29. E. S. Sheldon and A. C. White, Concordanza deUe
opere italiane in prosa e del Canzoniere di Dante
Alighieri, Oxford, University Press, 1905.

IV. BIBLIOGRAPHIES:

30. Cornell University, Library, Catalogue of the
Dante collection presented by WiUard Fiske, com-
piled by T. W. Koch, 2 vols., Ithaca, [no publ.],
1898-1900.

31. Koch, "A list of Danteiana in American libraries,
supplementing the catalogue of the Cornell col-
lection, ' ' in Eighteenth and nineteenth Annual re-
ports of the Dante Society (Cambridge, Mass.)
(for 1899-1900), 1901.

32. G. L. Passerini and C. Mazzi, Un decennio di
bibliografia dantesca, 1891-1900, Milan, Hoepli,
1905.

E. OTHER WORKS ON DANTE, IN ENGLISH

33. Sandro Botticelli, Drawings for Dante's Divina
commedia, ed. by F. Lippmann, London, Lawrence
and Bullen, 1896.

34-36. J. S. Carroll, Exiles of eternity: an exposition of
Dante's Inferno, 2d ed., 1904; Prisoners of hope:
an exposition of Dante's Purgatorio, 1906; In
patria: an exposition of Dante's Paradiso, 1911;
all London, Hodder and Stoughton.

ONE HUNDRED DANTE BOOKS

37. R. W. Church, Dante, and other essays, London,
Macmillan, 1888.

38. C. A. Dinsmore, Aids to the study of Dante,
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1903.

39. Dinsmore, Life of Dante Alighieri, Boston, Hough-
ton Mifflin, 1919.

40. K. Federn, Dante and his time, tr. by A. J. Butler,
London, Heinemann, 1902.

41. F. Flamini, Introduction to the study of the Divine
comedy, tr. by F. M. Josselyn, Boston, Ginn, 1910.

42. J. B. Fletcher, Dante, New York, Holt, 1916.

In the. Home university library of modern knowledge.

43. E. G. Gardner, Dante, London, Dent, 1900.

In the Temple primers series.

44. Gardner, Dante and the mystics, London, Dent,
1913.

45. Gardner, Dante's ten heavens, 2d ed., London,
Constable, 1904.

46. A. Gaspary, The history of early Italian literature
to the death of Dante, tr. by H. Oelsner, London,
Bell, 1001.

47. C. II. Grandgent, Dante, New York, Duffield, 1916.

In tho Master Spirits of Literature series.

48. Grandprent, The ladies of Dante's lyrics, Cam-
bridge, Harvard University Press, 1917.

49. Grandgent, The power of Dante, Boston, Jones,
1918.

50. R. T. Hoi brook, Portraits of Dante from Giotto
to Raffacl, London, Warner, 1911.

51-54. E. Moore, Studies in Dante: first series, 1896;
Second scries, 1899; Third series, 1903; Fourth
series, 1917; all Oxford, Clarendon Press.

55. L. F. Mott, The system of courtly love: studied
as an introduction to the Vita nuova of Dante,
Boston, Ginn, 1896.

56. L. Ra££, Dante and hi$ Italy, London, Methuon,
1907.

57. \V. H. V. Reade, The moral system of Dante'* ///

", Oxford. Clarendon Press, 1909.

58. H. D. Sedgwick, Dante, New Haven, Yale Uni-
versity Press, 1918.

ONE HUNDRED DANTE BOOKS

59. Sedgwick, The thirteenth century in Italy, 2 vols.,
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1912.

60. J. T. Slattery, Dante, "the central man of all the
world," New York, Kenedy, 1920.

61. J. A. Symonds, An introduction to the study of
Dante, 4th ed., London, Black, 1899.

62. P. Toynbee, Dante Alighieri: his life and works,
4th ed., London, Methuen, 1910.

63. Toynbee, Dante in English Literature from
Chaucer to Gary, 2 vols., London, Methuen, 1909.

64. Toynbee, Dante studies and researches, London,
Methuen, 1902.

65-67. W. W. Vernon, Readings on the Inferno of Dante,
2d ed., 2 vols., 1906 ; Readings on the Purgatorio
of Dante, 3d ed., 2 vols., 1907; Readings on the
Paradiso of Dante, 2d ed., 2 vols., 1909; all
London, Methuen.

68. (Giovanni Villani), Villani's Chronicle: being se-
lections from the first nine books of the Chroniche
fiorentine, by Hose E. Selfe, ed. by P. H. Wick-
steed, London, Constable, 1906.

69. P. H. Wicksteed, Dante: six sermons, London,
Kegan Paul, 1879.

70. Wicksteed, Dante and Aquinas, London, Dent,
1913.

71. Wicksteed, The early lives of Dante, London,
Moring, 1904.

In the King's Classics series.

72. K. Witte, Essays on Dante, tr. and ed. by C. M.
Lawrence and P. H. Wicksteed, London, Duck-
worth, 1898.

F. OTHER NOTABLE WORKS ON DANTE,
IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES

73. Arte, scienza e fede ai giorni di Dante, Milan,
Hoepli, 1901.

Lectures by different scholars.

74. M. Asin Palacios, La escatologm musulmana en
la Divina comedia, Madrid, Maestre, 1919.

75. G. Bindoni, Indagini critiche sidla Divina corn-
media, Milan, Albrighi Segati, 1918.

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ONE HUNDRED DANTE BOOKS

76. A Bona ventura, Dante e la musica, Leghorn,
Giusti, 1904.

77. G. Busnelli, II concetto e I'ordine del Paradiso
dantesco, Citta di Castello, Lapi, 1911-12.

Noa. 105-13 of the Collezianc di opusooli danteschi inediti
o ran.

78. Busnelli, La concezione del Purgatorio dantesco,
Rome, Civilta Cattolica, 1906.

79. Busnelli, L'ordinamento morale del Purgutortu
dantesco, Rome, Civilta Cattolica, 1908.

80. T. Casini, Scritti danteschi, Citta di Castello, Lapi,
1913.

No. 1 of the Collezione dcmtesea.

81. Con Dante e per Dante, Milan, Hoepli, 1898.

Lectures by different scholars.

82. B. Croee, La poesia di Dante, Bari, Laterza, 1921.

83. A. D'Ancona, Scritti danteschi, Florence, Sansoni,
1913.

84. I. Del Lungo, Dal secolo e dal poema di Dante,
Bologna, Zanichelli, 1898.

85. Del Luiitfo, Dante ne' tempi di Dante, Bologna,
Zanichelli, 1888.

86. F. De Sanctis, Quattro saggi danteschi, ed. by F.
Moroncini, Naples, Morano, 1903.

87. P. d'Ovidio, Nuovi studii danteschi, Milan, Hoepli,
1907.

88. D'Ovidio, II Purgatorio e U suo preludio, Milan,
Hoepli, 1906.

89. D'Ovidio, Studii sulla Divitni com media, Milan,
Sandron, 1901.

90. F. Plamini, / significati reconditi della Diriuu
jcommedia e il suo fine supremo, 2 vols., Leghorn,

Giusti, l!)03-4.

91. II. Hauvette, Dante: introduction a Vetude de la
Divine comedie, Paris, Hachette, 1911.

92. P. X. Kraus, Dante: sein Leben und sein Werk,

Vcrhdltniss .:ur Kunst und zur Pulitik,
Berlin, Grote, 1897.

93. G. L. Passrrini, I><mtr, Milan, Caddeo, 1921.

94. G. Salvador! . Xulla vita giovanile di Dante, Rome,
Societa Editrice Dante Alighieri, 1906.

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ONE HUNDRED DANTE BOOKS

95. M. Scherillo, Alcuni capitoli delta biografia di
Dante, Turin, Loescher, 1896.

96. Scherillo, Le origini: Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio,
Milan, Hoepli, 1919.

97. F. Torraca, Studi danteschi, Naples, Perrella,
1912.

98. L. Volkmann, Iconografia dantesca: die bildlichen
Darstellungen zur Gottlichcn Komodie, Leipzig,
Breitkopf and Hartel, 1893.

99. K. Vossler, Die Gottliche Komodie: Entwicklungs-
geschichte und Erklarung, 2 vols., Heidelberg,
Winter, 1907.

100. E. Wolf-Ferrari, Das neue Leben (cantata),
Hamburg, Eahter, 1904.

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